Holy shit what an asshole

One of the gals I follow on instagram finally got the confidence to bring her service dog into Target, she was nervous about it for this very same reason. Of course, some lady walked up to them and pulled on the dog’s tail, then had the nerve to say “see! your dog is distracted! real service dogs don’t get distracted!”

I sincerely doubt Rick Scott would run on the Democratic ticket.

In a legal document like this, making money on it or not making money on it isn’t relevant. it doesn’t matter in the eyes of the law. It also doesn’t matter why they haven’t enforced their IP on small players in the past or why they’ve chosen to enforce it in this case. The only relevance of other infringment would be…

Well, no. They get to decide what builds on their product. You (or anyone else) don’t get to decide for them.

This is about the CLEAREST case of copyright infringement as you can possibly get. I could honestly care less about this fan film one way or the other. And frankly I can assure you CBS couldn’t care less either it won’t affect them if it does OUTSTANDING or totally bomb’s that is not their concern it is simply theft…

I think what a few commenters here don’t quite recognize is that CBS didn’t shut down a fan project until they absolutely HAD TO.

They haven’t stopped fan films in the past, because none of the others have tried to profit on them like this.

That’s fine, but you have to understand the creative team behind Axanar were playing with fire the second they started throwing around the words ‘professional studio’ or even ‘More than a fan film.’ From the rights’ holder perspective, allowing that to pass could set an incredibly dangerous precedent. Any start-up…

“Where has a studio ever swooped in to prevent the completion of a fan film ever before ?”

....You seem to be working hard to miss the point.

Short summery for those of you who dont know Aaxnar. Axanar started as a kickstarter for a Startrek movie set as a historical documentry during the Terran-Klingon 4 year war, The idea was to make a good quality movie, actually getting actos that have been in previous trek installments like Gary Graham, or even famous…

Other projects have used Kickstarter, it was using that money to pay themselves salaries, and selling Trek-adjacent merchandise (like Axanar coffee) which got them in trouble.

It cannot be said enough, Axanar has published an annual budget in which they specifically excoriated people who said they were asking for too much money by saying they were “a professional production and not a fan film” who paid their employees. They are trying to use fandom as a human shield, basically.

But CBS is doing a show next year. And Paramount a movie this year. And a movie in 2013. And a movie in 2009. Those movies all made money. LOTS AND LOTS of money.

But it does have the expectation of making a profit. The filmmakers are drawing salaries and using the funds to forma studio.

If you don’t exercise your rights, you tend to lose them.

It was always a for-profit venture. Regardless of the the Axanar team is saying now. They took Kickstarter funds from a fan film and create a for-profit business. They used the funds to create Axanar Studios, which they plan to use as a full production house and film school. If they used the funds to simply create a…

Probably the Kickstarter cash, yeah. Intellectual property, as I understand it, is also fairly finicky. If you don’t exercise your rights, you tend to lose them.

Side-by-side comparisons are extremely common for trademark infringement cases.